Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean that is located between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. The island was settled by Great Britain in 1788 as a part of the Australian commonwealth, and it was a penal colony until 1855, with the island being abandoned from 1814 to 1825. In 1856, permanent settlement began on the island, and it was ceded to Australia by the United Kingdom in 1914. In 2014, the island had a population of 2,210 people, with most of them being of European descent (descended from the HMS Bounty mutineers and Pitcairn Island settlers) or of mixed European and Tahitian descent.